Re: NM 0.7.1 rc3 oddness with 3G USB device

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 17:02 +0100, Jacob Nielsen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 15:05 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> 
> > > The devices don't always get cleared from the list of Broadband devices when
> > > the device is removed - these can keep mounting up.
> > 
> > That's quite odd; can you post some logs of this happening in NM?  I've
> > heard of similar issues before but we could never nail them down to
> > either NM or HAL.
> 
> I see the same behaviour with my Huawei e160g dongle: 
> 
> When the dongle is inserted, two ttyUSB devices appear. If it is removed
> without making a connection, they both disappear again.
> 
> After connecting to and disconnecting from the network through the
> nm-applet menu, the dongle is left registered to the network (according
> to the dongle's LED code). If it is removed in this state, the
> lower-numbered tty device remains. When it is reconnected, two tty
> devices appear again, for a total of three. Also, the applet menu will
> then have two identical entries for the 3g provider. (And it is still
> possible to connect.)

I finally ran into this yesterday myself so there's some hope I can fix
it :)

Dan